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21
Sep
Controlling NVIDIA GPU Fans on a headless Ubuntu system

Controlling NVIDIA GPU Fans on a headless Ubuntu system

When performing data science on an Ubuntu Linux machine remotely, the fans on NVIDIA GPUs may not spin up in
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15
Mar
Google's 'Coral' Edge TPU Dev Boards

Google's 'Coral' Edge TPU Dev Boards

I received a pair of Google's 'Coral' Edge TPU Dev Boards today. They have the exact
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04
Mar
Google's 'Coral' Edge TPU Accelerator

Google's 'Coral' Edge TPU Accelerator

Feeling like a kid on Christmas, today I finally received a couple of the Google 'Coral' Edge TPU
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31
Aug
Pandas - Opening and Selecting Data

Pandas - Opening and Selecting Data

Data assets used in these examples * Titanic [https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic] * City population [http://ezlocal.com/blog/post/
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31
Aug
Connect Jupyter to Remote Spark Clusters With Apache Toree

Connect Jupyter to Remote Spark Clusters With Apache Toree

Scala [https://www.scala-lang.org/] is a fun language which gives you all the power of Java [https://www.
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05
Nov
How to run TensorFlow with GPU on Windows 10 in a Jupyter Notebook

How to run TensorFlow with GPU on Windows 10 in a Jupyter Notebook

Install CUDA ToolKit The first step in our process is to install the CUDA ToolKit, which is what gives us
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21
Oct
Transpose data with Spark

Transpose data with Spark

A short user defined function written in Scala which allows you to transpose a dataframe without performing aggregation functions.
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16
Sep
Convert Spark Vectors to DataFrame Columns

Convert Spark Vectors to DataFrame Columns

Vectors are typically required for Machine Learning tasks, but are otherwise not commonly used. Sometimes you end up with an
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15
Sep
Pivoting data with Spark

Pivoting data with Spark

One of the common data engineering tasks is taking a deep dataset and turning into a wide dataset with some
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29
Aug
Renaming All Columns In A Spark DataFrame

Renaming All Columns In A Spark DataFrame

Here's an easy example of how to rename all columns in an Apache Spark DataFrame. Tehcnically, we'
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